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Why Fernet? #15

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chadwhitacre opened this issue May 4, 2016 · 4 comments
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Why Fernet? #15

chadwhitacre opened this issue May 4, 2016 · 4 comments

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@chadwhitacre
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Why does Fernet exist? Who made it? Where does it come from? What does it compete with? What does it replace?
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Doing some spelunking over in gratipay/gratipay.com#3998. Looks like the Fernet spec was abstracted out of a Ruby implementation developed at Heroku.

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This would be good to explain in the README.

@dannluciano
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I have the same question!
Why Fernet?

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mgaitan commented Apr 30, 2019

And what does it name mean? Is it because of the bitter?

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